Late in an early episode of Castle Rock, the show chooses a humorless moment to poke a little fun at the audience. Henry Deaver (Andre Holland) sits in halting conversation with a mysterious young man (Bill Skarsgård), their bodies separated by glass and their voices joined by jailhouse phones. Or

Brooklyn was a place residents worked to escape in Paul Levitzs day, which was decades before an influx of wealthy whites transformed it into something barely recognizable to its natives. But its hold on its children can be felt in the bitterness, the contempt and the truth behind the opening

Around 6 pm Tuesday at Tham Luang in Thailand, the last of the 13 survivors who had spent 18 days trapped in a cave emerged to safety. A rescue team had spent the past three days getting the boys out after five days of desperate planning and calculations since their

Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart: Timeless TV stars?Image: fox When The Conners arrives on ABC for its first season sans Roseanne this September, another more enduring working-class American family will return to our screens for its 30th season. And none of its cast members will have aged a day

Image: Brian To/FilmMagic Turkish-American composer Pinar Toprak has been hired to compose the score for Captain Marvel, which will premiere in March of next year.  Even if you’re not a film score buff, there’s a good chance you’re already familiar with Toprak’s work. In addition to writing additional music for

Cloak & Dagger, the latest Marvel series to hit cable, ditches Netflix and goes to Freeform because this ones about teenagers. Far from light-hearted like Hulus Runaways, however, Cloak & Dagger is full of the grit and dark color of Marvels Netflix offerings like Jessica Jones. Which is to say

“Avengers: Infinity War” is like the Super Bowl: either you saw it, or you consciously opted to miss America’s latest biggest cultural event. But football is niche compared to MARVEL MOVIES. They’re the biggest pillar of global entertainment, made by skilled professionals doing their very best work, and here’s the

Thanos deserves more than this.Image: marvel studios Warning: This post contains MAJOR spoilers for the end of Avengers: Infinity War Maybe I’m a monster, but the moment I cheered the loudest during Avengers: Infinity War was when all the superheroes disintegrated and the bad guy got his happy ending. I’m

No matter how magnetic Josh Brolin is when wearing a full face of CGI makeup—and the answer, it seems, is a surprising “more than you’d expect”—there’s no way that Avengers: Infinity War can fulfill everyone’s Thanos thirst. The character Brolin is embodying is almost too much for one person to

Marvel’s movies and TV shows could already fill hours, if not days and weeks, of your time. Yet, in order to know the full stories behind the Avengers, the Guardians, and the Spider-Men, you really need to go back to their comic-book origins. Now, that’s a time-suck. And a money-suck,